My pet peeve at work is -

Skeemer118
Skeemer118 Posts: 397 Member
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My company takes yard waste & clean pallets & turns it into mulch for the community. Depending on what material is used, it could look entirely different from one day to the next.When I tell our customers over the phone that we sell mulch & they ask what it looks like. "Is it light brown? Is it chunky? Is it fine?" *sigh* It's 2 acres away from my office, I don't know how it's looking today.:huh: I'm not going over there to look at it just to walk back to the phone & hope they're still waiting for me. When I tell them, "Well Sir, people call different things mulch so it would really be best for you to drive out to see if it suits your needs." They get all quiet on the phone like I just cussed them out. I'm all for customer service but YEESH.

What's your pet peeve?
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  • johnlatv
    johnlatv Posts: 654 Member
    they want me to work. :)
  • kit_katty
    kit_katty Posts: 992 Member
    Not me but someone I know, his company has now stopped providing tea bags, milk, and cream. I mean, these are such small things that really help with employee morale, or rather, they certainly lower morale when it's taken away! Sheesh, cheapskates!
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    It is the whole showing up thing. I can do most of this from home.
  • JennaM222
    JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
    My company is laying people off, yet we have and EPC that brings in $150 of treats 3 mornings a week. UMM WHAT!!! Then we have team meetings about cost saving ideas.

    le sigh
  • boston6
    boston6 Posts: 158 Member
    My pet peeve is when I try to find out the color of the mulch I'm ordering and the rep tells me to drive out to see it. LOL
  • LaDiablesse
    LaDiablesse Posts: 862 Member
    I could do 90% of my job from home, but since I have to come into the office ... There is one person in the office thinks that anything she has to say or do is so important that she interrupts people on the phone, mid-conversation, or starts handing you stuff while you're working on other things. Excuse me! That's what my INBOX is for!
  • morganhccstudent724
    morganhccstudent724 Posts: 1,261 Member
    the bathroom.

    Clean up after your f*ucking self....I am not maid brigade...
  • berv0009
    berv0009 Posts: 454 Member
    My company is laying people off, yet we have and EPC that brings in $150 of treats 3 mornings a week. UMM WHAT!!! Then we have team meetings about cost saving ideas.

    le sigh

    hahahahahahaha isn't it brilliant?
  • likeaphoenix28
    likeaphoenix28 Posts: 176
    not enough work to do
  • felice03
    felice03 Posts: 2,644 Member
    they want me to work. :)


    THIS!!!!!
  • cuddlyrunner
    cuddlyrunner Posts: 116 Member
    Not me but someone I know, his company has now stopped providing tea bags, milk, and cream. I mean, these are such small things that really help with employee morale, or rather, they certainly lower morale when it's taken away! Sheesh, cheapskates!

    Wow, I've NEVER worked anywhere where you don't have to pay into a kitty for it or take your own.
  • lorac321
    lorac321 Posts: 614 Member
    The chief to indian ratio (of course I'm an indian)
    My counterpart that is sick on Thursdays and Fridays 2x a month
    I hate coffee and the coffee maker is right next to my office
    Craig's list is a blocked website
  • gatecityradio
    gatecityradio Posts: 401
    People who are OCD about stuff...I understand doing everything right, but why make something simple twice as hard?
  • MariaAlbinaxoxo
    MariaAlbinaxoxo Posts: 290 Member
    My boss. period. I want a new one.
  • thepetiterunner
    thepetiterunner Posts: 1,238 Member
    Passive aggressive people.

    Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Don't throw your coworkers under the bus. It's tasteless.
  • _SusieQ_
    _SusieQ_ Posts: 2,964 Member
    The chic in the cube next to me who eats apples louder than Mr. Ed. And slurps her drinks. And scrapes the yogurt cup 47 times to make sure she didn't miss that last little bit.
  • AmberLee2012
    AmberLee2012 Posts: 540
    when I don't have enough work to do. It makes the day drag!
  • FaugHorn
    FaugHorn Posts: 1,060 Member
    My pet peeve is when I try to find out the color of the mulch I'm ordering and the rep tells me to drive out to see it. LOL

    I literally lol'd

    My pet peeve at work is...my commute! And that 95% of my job can be done just as good, if not better, from my home office WITHOUT a 3 hour a day trip
  • jlowensby
    jlowensby Posts: 142
    having a boss that is ALWAYS gone....she is already only part time...sorta kinda need her here on the hours she should be!
  • TiffanyDawn79
    TiffanyDawn79 Posts: 201 Member
    When patients get mad at ME because they have a deductible with their insurance and have to pay it before we can see them in our office.
  • AmberLee2012
    AmberLee2012 Posts: 540
    My pet peeve is when I try to find out the color of the mulch I'm ordering and the rep tells me to drive out to see it. LOL

    LOL!!
  • gatecityradio
    gatecityradio Posts: 401
    negative people...I mean really, it's work so it's already not the most fun thing in the world, so why make it worse.

    back stabbers, we have a few here, and they are usually the negative people.
  • ansonrinesmith
    ansonrinesmith Posts: 741 Member
    People who come into my cube and insist on reading my email or whatever webpage I may have pulled up.
    I think I'll keep one up about some contagious bug, and see if that helps keep them away.
  • Leigh_b
    Leigh_b Posts: 576 Member
    people who cancel conference calls 6 minutes after they were supposed to start... this just happened!
  • AshCunn777
    AshCunn777 Posts: 4
    I work at a hospital as a CNA/ ward clerk (a secretarial position) and I am constantly having to answer call lights for the nurses. I don't mind it most the time but if they are sitting there reading, playing on the internet, messing with their phones, etc. Get off your butt and take care of your patients so that I can do my work!
  • MelissaT81
    MelissaT81 Posts: 123 Member
    My co worker who feels the need to chew on ice all day long and thinks she knows everything....she will argue till you're blue in the face. :explode:
  • MelissaT81
    MelissaT81 Posts: 123 Member
    negative people...I mean really, it's work so it's already not the most fun thing in the world, so why make it worse.

    back stabbers, we have a few here, and they are usually the negative people.

    Yes we have a lady who goes around complaining of every ailment in the book or how every day is a Monday...she NEVER has anything nice to say...I avoid her at all costs. And every where you go has backstabbers...people only care about themselves now days.
  • serena569
    serena569 Posts: 427 Member
    I work in a surgal chairman's office at a hospital. My coworker is my pet peeve because:

    1. She dresses like a bookkeeper in a factory (khakis and embellished t-shirts) rather than a professional accountant then teels me I dress like a hooker for wearing business clothes (skirt and heels).
    2. She compalins I type too loudly. I suggested that maybe I just type too fast.
    3. She is loosing her hearing so she yells rather than talks.
    4. Her mouth needs a big bar of soap shoved in it.
    5. She gets "food poisoning" more in a month than I've had my entire life.
  • Pocket_Pixi
    Pocket_Pixi Posts: 1,167 Member
    I enter replacement jobs for defective products, but if I don't know the job needs to be entered it will never get entered and then they end up with pissed off customers. Its not my fault I am not a mind reader.

    And not answering my emails/phone calls when I need the information NOW... not next week.
  • Julianne8104
    Julianne8104 Posts: 22 Member
    People who sit at other people's desk for like 30 minutes to HOURS chit chatting, gossiping, laughing like hyenas... while I'm trying to do my work! ARGH. Really??? Oh... and personal calls that involve loud conversations... No.. I don't want to hear about your pap smear results...

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